Applying Jean Baudrillard’s query “What are you doing after the orgy?” to the postmillennial weather that informs our modern cultural second, this publication argues that the mind's eye of apocalyptic endings has been an obsessive topic in post-Enlightenment tradition. Dominic Pettman identifies and examines the dynamic tensions of varied apocalyptic discourses, from the fin-de-siècle decadents of the Nineties to the fin-de-millènnium cyberpunks of the Nineteen Nineties, which will spotlight the advanced constellation of exhaustion, anticipation, panic, and ecstasy in modern tradition. via analyses of rapturous cults, cyberpunk literature, post-apocalyptic cinema, techno-paganism, dying type, and the Y2K prophecy, After the Orgy explores why the 20 th century swung so violently among the poles of anticipation and anticlimax. within the procedure, the publication increases urgent questions in regards to the relevance of such principles in our new millennium and issues out choices to the monotonous horror of conventional narratives.

“Thoughtful, wide-ranging, and eloquently written ... After the Orgy can't be decreased to any unmarried simplistic thesis, and this can be one in every of its significant strengths. It recognizes and affirms complexity, and but it provides this complexity in a compellingly transparent demeanour. in brief, Pettman is an outstanding critic, either by way of breadth of reference and knowing, and when it comes to subtlety and thought.” — Steven Shaviro, writer of Doom Patrols: A Theoretical Fiction approximately Postmodernism

“The variety of cultural and textual readings provided listed below are complemented by means of Pettman’s expertise for telling a ‘story.’ rather than laboring via a dry interpretation of millennial practices, I listened to a great storyteller interpret and draw cognizance to big practices happening on the present.” — Todd F. Davis, coeditor of Mapping the moral flip: A Reader in Ethics, tradition, and Literary Theory

Dominic Pettman is Assistant Professor of latest Media on the college of Amsterdam.

Do humans learn about God simply by being humans? Or do they want distinct divine information, throughout the Bible and the church? typical theology was once lengthy approved as a simple component in all theology, yet within the 20th century it was once rejected by means of very important theologians, specially Karl Barth. His perspectives denied all ordinary theology and put better emphasis at the Bible.

This quantity explores problems with black girl identity through a few of the "imaginings" of the black girl physique in print and visible culture. Contributions emphasize the ways that the black lady physique is framed and the way black ladies (and their allies) have sought to write down themselves again into social discourses on their phrases.

During this edited assortment top authors within the box draw on their adventure to deal with key methodological questions and demanding situations that experience arisen from the hot proliferation of analysis tasks and govt funded tasks on violence opposed to girls. subject matters comprise: assessment learn and feminist technique; utilizing quantitative and qualitative ways; ethics, protection and entry in delicate learn; interviewing practitioners, perpetrators, coverage makers, and survivors (including childrens, ladies and younger people); using discourse research to interpret info; venture move nationwide and comparative learn; useful instructions for practitioners/academics wishing to refer to with girls survivors; gearing study to facilitate confident switch in coverage and perform; and utilizing the media for dissemination.